chaperone
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
See chaperon.
[edit] Noun
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chaperone (plural chaperones)
- An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
- (biology) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
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an older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman
[edit] Verb
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to chaperone (third-person singular simple present chaperones, present participle chaperoning, simple past and past participle chaperoned)
- to act as a chaperone
- 2006, The New Yorker, 17 April 2006, page 27.
- 'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'
- 2006, The New Yorker, 17 April 2006, page 27.
